Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take his freshly picked, ripe, red strawberry for himself. There is only one solution: to share the delicious strawberry with the narrator and eat it all up before the bear can get it.

A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.

When Evie's strawberry patch is flooded she needs to find somewhere for her strawberry plants to live -- the flower fairies' garden is too crowded, the pond is too swampy and the woods are too dark. With the help of her friends, Evie moves her plants to their new home on the little hill, but they still won't grow. What has Evie forgotten? Through Evie's adventures young readers will learn about the natural world -- how plants grow and how all living...

A wife and her grumpy husband go to market.

Describes how vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry came to become popular flavorings, how they were originally used, how they're used today, and what makes them taste the way they do. Includes recipes.